Canada election: Carney, Singh pledge housing help while Poilievre promises tax haven crackdown

Carney takes run to Intelligent City

Hi, I’m Cat Tunney, pursuing the Liberal run this week. Leader Mark Carney is present speaking from Delta, B.C.

The backdrop contiguous is Intelligent City, a Vancouver institution that produces wide timber housing, utilizing robotics. Carney took a rotation connected the video-console-like tool.

It’s portion of Carney’s transportation to usage innovation to standard up housing.

NDP run autobus disconnected the road

I’m a elder newsman with the Parliamentary bureau covering the NDP run this week. The NDP’s run autobus is successful the store successful Vancouver for repairs. Journalists boarded a plain achromatic replacement autobus this greeting to caput to Singh’s announcement.

The orangish run autobus wrapped successful Singh’s look and “in it for you” slogan appeared to overheat yesterday. The autobus unopen down doubly concisely astatine the broadside of the road, and the autobus operator was overheard saying determination were cooling issues.

Singh calls for reappraisal of $7B Blackstone-Rogers woody

Singh is calling connected the national authorities to “initiate an contiguous review” of a merchantability betwixt Rogers Communications and U.S. concern absorption steadfast Blackstone.

Last week, Rogers announced Blackstone volition “acquire a non-controlling involvement successful a caller Canadian subsidiary of Rogers that volition ain a insignificant portion of Rogers wireless network” — a $7-billion equity investment.

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, “an American billionaire, proprietor of Blackstone, has finalized a woody to bargain up Canadian telecommunications infrastructure,” Singh said.

“This is fundamentally wrong,” Singh said. “We person to support our Canadian infrastructure, particularly telecommunications. Keep it Canadian. Keep it ours,” helium said.

Singh doubles down connected lodging promises

Singh said if elected his enactment would permanently prohibition “big-money investors” from buying up Canadian homes.

Singh has already said the New Democrats would supply national backing for provinces and municipalities, arsenic agelong arsenic they guarantee caller homes stay affordable to Canadians.

“In addition, we’re going to extremity the loopholes that let speculators to flip homes twelvemonth aft year. That’s got to stop,” helium said.

Singh ‘confident’ helium tin triumph his ain riding

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is taking questions from reporters successful Vancouver. He conscionable said he’s “confident” he’ll beryllium capable to proceed representing his riding successful Burnaby, B.C.

The NDP is lagging successful the polls, with CBC’s Poll Tracker presently projecting the enactment could triumph conscionable 5 seats this election.

As my workfellow David Thurton has reported, Singh precocious dropped messaging that asserts he’s moving for premier minister.

One newsman noted contiguous that Singh doesn’t person immoderate rallies planned portion he’s successful B.C., and asked whether that’s due to the fact that the enactment is acrophobic it won’t beryllium capable to gully capable people.

Singh said his enactment is focused connected showcasing argumentation ideas. “We’re looking guardant to showing radical the prime they person successful this election,” helium said.

The National hears from Alberta voters tonight

I’m Adrienne Arsenault and The National is again broadcasting retired of Medicine Hat, Alta., tonight. We person a coagulated speech with 4 arrogant Albertans who person differing governmental views, but they stock the aforesaid ambition — to marque this state stronger and, by extension, marque Canada stronger.

This isn’t a plaything riding. It’s reliably conservative, but they don’t privation their loyal ballot taken for granted. They person expectations that it should beryllium easier to get lipid and state moved, cattle processed present successful Alberta — not sent to the U.S. past brought backmost — and interprovincial commercialized barriers lifted.

And connected the suggestions of secession oregon a unity situation ahead, they accidental they recognize the emotion down it, the feeling of Alberta being misunderstood, but don’t truly similar that speech of breaking away. Kody Traxel, who works astatine a cattle provender workplace and has worked successful lipid and gas, was speedy to leap successful and speech astir unity.

“The separation thing, I'm not a instrumentality of it, but I'll archer you that close now, astatine this time, it is thing precise talked about. It isn’t a gag anymore,” helium said. “I truly deliberation if we don't tighten up the straps and get backmost to concern and get america working, get affordability down, we're going to beryllium successful large trouble.”

Four hard-working, passionate voters. One bully chat. Tonight connected The National.

Blanchet criticizes judges, executives not gathering French requirements

In snowy Ottawa, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet defended the Quebec government’s usage of the notwithstanding clause to walk authorities and spoke retired against the process for appointing judges to the Supreme Court of Canada aft reports of suspected partisanship and immoderate judges’ deficiency of mastery of the French language.

The Bloc is calling for Supreme Court judges to beryllium chosen based connected a database provided by Quebec (by law, 3 of the 9 judges indispensable travel from Quebec.)

Blanchet besides commented connected Radio-Canada’s reporting astir however astir one-quarter of managers astatine the Bank of Canada bash not conscionable the French connection requirements.

“Tell maine thing I don’t know,” Blanchet said successful English for emphasis.

Answering reporters successful French, Blanchet said that the national authorities “doesn’t springiness a damn” astir whether executives maestro French and are genuinely bilingual.

“Say ‘bonjour’ erstwhile oregon twice, and we’ll hide astir it. It’s ever been similar that,” Blanchet added successful French.

During an speech with a newsman from the Globe and Mail, Poilievre asked whether she enjoyed his rally successful Edmonton past nighttime — not the archetypal clip he’s asked a writer that question.

The newsman said she wanted to inquire him astir the rally, and “whether size matters.” That got a large laughter from the Conservative leader.

There’s been thing of an accent connected rally sizes during this agelong of the run — and with that, concerns that focusing excessively overmuch connected a leader’s quality to gully a assemblage brings up comparisons to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has famously fixated connected the fig of attendees to his rallies and inaugurations.

The Globe newsman asked Poilievre whether his crowd-pleasers astatine rallies — talking astir the “woke mob,” the Century Initiative, and his privation to defund the CBC — are broadening his enactment to Liberals and undecided voters, oregon whether it shows that his rallies beryllium successful an “echo chamber.”

Poilievre said helium thinks those ideas person broadened his support, past asked the newsman however galore radical she thinks attended the rally, and whether she’d ever been to 1 that big.

“I don’t know. I’ve ne'er been to a governmental rally that big, I think,” she said. The Conservative run estimated that the rally drew 12,000 people.

Poilievre seized connected the moment. “To person 10 oregon 15,000 radical astatine 1 rally — this is simply a question similar we’ve ne'er seen, due to the fact that radical privation change,” helium said. “They privation to enactment our state archetypal for a change.”

Fact-checking Poilievre’s assertion connected Carney’s taxes

Poilievre, going aft taxation evaders, is repeating a communal assertion that Carney placed his idiosyncratic assets successful Bermuda to debar paying taxes successful Canada.

Carney was the co-chair of 2 greenish funds portion helium worked astatine Brookfield Asset Management. Radio-Canada reported that the institution attracted investors by registering the funds successful Bermuda, a taxation haven.

My workfellow Stephen Hoff, with CBC’s fact-checking unit, explains that Brookfield, arsenic good arsenic galore different ample funds successful Canada, bash regularly registry themselves successful overseas jurisdictions to trim the magnitude of wealth they wage successful taxation connected investments.

In fact, according to the Paradise Papers leak, 7 of Canada’s 8 largest pension funds had overseas registrations — truthful what Brookfield did is common.

In this case, Brookfield says it complied with each taxation rules. Carney says taxes are yet paid successful Canada by the Canadians who beryllium to these pension funds. That is true.

But the taxes Brookfield owed arsenic a institution were importantly smaller than if the funds had been based successful this country, Hoff writes. Bermuda’s firm taxation complaint was zero per cent erstwhile the funds were acceptable up. In Canada, it totals astir 26 per cent.

However, Poilievre has not offered immoderate substantive grounds to amusement that Carney registered his ain idiosyncratic assets successful an offshore account.